Later...

Just in time, they found Mrs. Mariane Mallory at the very top story of her house, lying on the cold floor, her right wrist painted with blood. She was clutching the telephone in her left hand and a crumpled note in her right.

She was rushed by the ambulance to the nearest hospital, and was saved by some miracle. The doctors said, if she had been left any longer, she wouldn't have made it.